| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.2

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Joseph A. Amato. Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 268. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $32.95.

In this marvelous book, Joseph A. Amato introduces us to his parents Joe and Ethel, Grandmas Rosalia and Frances, Aunt May, Great-grandfather Jacob of the book's title, and a tree full of Boodrys, Linsdaus, and O'Briens. The reader travels to Italy, Detroit, Acadia, Maine, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The relatives Amato knew are the most vividly represented, but all of his kin receive thoughtful, probing, treatment that is both analytic and loving. Amato uses the perspective and tools of both the professional historian and the genealogist in this work. As he tells us, he is exploring a past that has both personal and historical meanings.

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